How to pronounce “out”

Meaning

• [Adverb]
• Away from the inside or centre.
• Away from, or at a distance from, some point of reference or focus.
• (informal) Away, or at a distance, in time (relative to, and usually after, the present or a stated event) (often preceded by a stated time period and followed by "from")
• Outside; not indoors.
• (sports) Of the ball or other playing implement, so as to pass or be situated beyond the bounds of the playing area.
• Into a state of non-operation or non-existence.
• To the end; completely; so that nothing remains.
• Used to intensify or emphasize.
• Into a state of existence or visibility.
• (cricket, baseball, of a player) So as to be disqualified from playing further by some action of a member of the opposing team (such as being stumped in cricket).
• [Preposition]
• (informal, sometimes proscribed) From the inside to the outside of; out of. [from 14th c.]
• [Noun]
• A means of exit, escape, reprieve, etc.
• (baseball) A state in which a member of the batting team is removed from play due to the application of various rules of the game such as striking out, hitting a fly ball which is caught by the fielding team before bouncing, etc.
• (cricket) A dismissal; a state in which a member of the batting team finishes his turn at bat, due to the application of various rules of the game, such as the bowler knocking over the batsman's wicket with the ball.
• (poker) A card which can make a hand a winner.
• (dated) A trip out; an outing.
• (chiefly in the plural) One who, or that which, is out; especially, one who is out of office.
• A place or space outside of something; a nook or corner; an angle projecting outward; an open space.
• (printing, dated) A word or words omitted by the compositor in setting up copy; an omission.
• (film, colloquial) An outtake.
• (obsolete) A dram glass.
• [Verb]
• (transitive) To eject; to expel.
• (intransitive) To come or go out; to get out or away; to become public, revealed, or apparent.
• (transitive) To reveal (a person or organization) as having a certain secret, such as a being a secret agent or undercover detective.
• (transitive) To reveal (a secret).
• (transitive, LGBTQ) To reveal (a person) as LGBTQ+ (gay, trans, etc).
• To kill; to snuff out.
• [Adjective]
• Not inside or within a place, especially a place that someone or something was formerly inside or is customarily inside:
• Not (or no longer) acceptable or in consideration, play, availability, or operation:
• Open or public (about something).
• Freed from secrecy.
• Available to be seen, or to be interacted with in some way:
• (of the tide) At or near its lowest level.
• Without; no longer in possession of; not having any more.
• (of calculations or measurements) Containing errors or discrepancies, or in error by a stated amount.
• [Interjection]
• (procedure word, especially military) A radio procedure word meaning that the station is finished with its transmission and does not expect a response.
• Get out; begone; away!

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